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boys to make presents to those avIio, if genuine relations, 

 actually sold them. But those who have been caught 

 young know nothing of the evils of slavery, and do not 

 believe in its ills. Chuma, for instance, believes now that 

 he was caught and sold by the Manganja, and not by his 

 own Waiyau, though it was just in the opposite way that 

 he became a slave, and he asserted and believes that no 

 Waiyau ever sold his own child. When reminded that 

 Wikatani was sold by his own father, he denied it ; then 

 that the father of Chimwala, another boy, sold him, his 

 mother, and sister, he replied, " These are Machinga." 

 This is another tribe of Waiyau; but this showed that 

 he was determined to justify his countrymen at any rate. 

 I mention this matter, because though the Oxford and 

 Cambridge Mission have an advantage in the instruction 

 of boys taken quite young from slavers, yet these same 

 boys forget the evils to which they were exposed and from 

 which they were rescued, and it is even likely that they 

 will, like Chuma, deny that any benefit was conferred upon 

 them by their deliverance. This was not stated broadly by 

 Chuma, but his tone led one to believe that he was quite 

 ready to return to the former state. 



5th October. — The chief came early with an immense 

 basket of beer, as usual. We were ready to start : he did 

 not relish this ; but I told him it was clear that his people 

 set very light by his authority. He declared that he would 

 force them or go himself, with his wives as carriers. This 

 dawdling and guzzling had a bad effect on my remaining 

 people. Simon, a Nassick lad, for instance, overheard two 

 words which he understood ; these were " Mazitu " and 

 " lipululu," or desert ; and from these he conjured up a 

 picture of Mazitu rushing out upon us from the jungle, 

 and killing all without giving us time to say a word ! To 

 this he added scraps of distorted information : Khambuiri 

 was a very bad chief in front, &c, all showing egregious 



